The Red Man's Bones, George Catlin, artist and showman, Benita Eisler
Type
Label
The Red Man's Bones, George Catlin, artist and showman, Benita Eisler
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Red Man's Bones
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
783163556
Responsibility statement
Benita Eisler
Sub title
George Catlin, artist and showman
Summary
George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”<U+2014>his word<U+2014>by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits<U+2014>unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River
Target audience
adult